When it comes to a custom NAS setup, you’ve got plenty of choices for the operating system. There’s OpenMediaVault for underpowered devices, Unraid for premium users, and even good ol’ Proxmox, once ...

Many small and midsize businesses (SMBs) don't believe that a hacker would target their enterprise. Although it's true that many attacks are planned to vandalize highly visible Web sites, any ...

The new products include four, 11th generation Dell PowerEdge servers, the PowerVault NX300 NAS device and Dell-branded UPSes that were developed with storage and systems management capability for ...

High-capacity disk drives are now widely available at prices that are incredibly cheap compared to those of only a few years ago. In addition, with so many Linux users now ripping CDs to disk, saving ...

RDMA networking has enabled high-performance computing for years, but Windows Server 2012 R2 with SMB Direct is bringing it to the mainstream. File-based storage has grown tremendously over the last ...

I was just reading about the new SMB 3.0 features that will be released with Server 2012 and Windows 8. One of the features that really has me intrigued is the new SMB Multichannel. SMB Multichannel ...

Conventional wisdom seems to be that SMB, even in its over TCP variant over port 445, is only to be used over the intranet and access should be cut at the perimeter firewall. People needing access ...